Subject: You Know You've Been Watching Too Much EE When... |
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| Author |
Message |
| stephaniearwen 10/10/00 |
...you're
snacking on cashews in front of your computer and you
find yourself wondering what a cashew shell looks like. ...every time you listen to "Angel" you start to cry, because all you can think about is "Fate." ...you start to favor sweats over your usual attire. Anyone else have any? I know there's already a list out there, but I figured I'd add some more. :) |
| Dollene 10/10/00 |
When you are talking with someone and you hold out your hand and point two fingers and motion with your hand and you think...Gary does this. :D |
| Candii 10/11/00 |
....you finally decide to put away your tapes,(ONLY because your family is starting to look at you funny because ALL you ever watch are your tapes,)and you find that regular TV has gone to the DOGS!! |
| tdmiller82 10/11/00 |
...you get a jury summons & pray that there will be a cute guy with a newspaper & hockey stick sitting next to you :) |
| karens608 10/11/00 |
...seeing a
Camaro makes you laugh. ...you find a copy of the Sun-Times and you immediately check the date. |
| ken_joe 10/11/00 |
...you see a cat and immediatley ask "where's the paper?" ..you go to the Sun-Times building and ask for Miguel Diaz ..you go to the police station and ask for Brigatti or Armstrong ..you relate EVERYTHING you do to a EE episode ..you're taking a history test and remember that a man from the future put the REAL one out.. but that mean bar owner started it again |
| Ren713 10/11/00 |
- You come up
with excuses not to be anywhere but in front of the TV
from 7 to 8 and 10 to 11 Mon-Fri. - You see a turtleneck sweater on a mannequin in a deparment story and think "that would look so hot on Gary." - Whenever your cat meows, you wait for a FLOP! and expect to see a paper under its backside. - You consider going to Chicago and passing out in a street, hoping you-know-who will show up and try to give you mouth to mouth recessitation. - You have a strange craving for gnocchi, and you don't even know what it is. - You talk about the characters with other EE watchers as if they were real people. - The word "lollypop" causes unexplainable giggles. - Every time you hear the song "Angel" you get suddenly depressed and have a desperate need to cradle the television in your arms. - You've given up dating because other guys simply don't measure up to Gary. - You find yourself in a tough situation and find yourself asking "what would Gary do?" |
| stephaniearwen 10/11/00 |
Ren - LOL! I was about to post
one about asking myself what Gary would do in difficult
situations, but you beat me to the punch. I agree with
you regarding "Angel!" Like I said above, it
always makes me cry when I hear it. To all of you- Keep these coming! They are really funny, and so true! :) |
| ken_joe 10/11/00 |
... when you read or hear about something bad happening u say "Gary could have stopped that" or "Where's Gary when u need him?" |
| Candii 10/11/00 |
....while
standing in a checkout line, someone cuts in front of you
and instead of making a fuss, you run your fingers back
through your hair and say breathlessly while nodding
"Th..thats..okay" ... while in the express lane, the lady in back of you is a few dollars short. You pick up your bag and plop down a five dollar bill towards her order while rushing out as if you have somewhere to be in a hurry. ....start wearing boxers shorts when all you've ever worn were regular underwear. ...buy a black leather jacket so that you can pull the collar up around your neck, shove your hands in the pockets,and to walk to the store instead of taking the car. |
| Amy-Kokomo 10/11/00 |
You see a sweater in the women's section of the Lands' End catalog that looks like one Gary would wear. (Not to mean that he'd wear a women's sweater :) ) |
| SnowsCat 10/11/00 |
...you find
yourself sarcastically saying "You're Welcome!!"
like Gary does when someone doesn't say Thank you. ...you turn around whenever you hear a cat meow...and wonder if a paper is going to follow. ...you can picture what is going on during the credits, just by hearing the music (what I am doing as I type). |
| Dollene 10/11/00 |
Ren, you have been watching too much. I am anxiously awaiting the moment when I think of fainting so I can get mouth to mouth. hehe! ....when you are updating your mailing list at work and everytime you type in Morris, OK you think of Morris at the Sun times. ....when you wear a ball cap and denim shirt you keep thinking of Gary in Fatal Edition. ....when you start wearing boxers and tshirts to bed. ....When you dream of running into Chuck at Walmart in the catgood aisle as you are buying catfood to send into Fox Family. ....When you keep calling the guy at work Gary when his name is Dave. |
| Candii 10/11/00 |
....ever you meet
someone with the last name Chandler, in the back of your
mind, you are secretly wondering if that person is a
distant relative of Kyle's. :) ....you finish a sentence or conversation with a line from an EE episode. If the person doesn't know about EE, you get a strange look, if they do (like my son) he says "Mom!" :) ....when you find yourself daydreaming about what life would be like,if you could be the wife or girl of Gary Hobson. :D ....you hear the song "White Christmas" and you think of Gary sitting all alone in that hotel room from the episode Christmas, and you want to just cuddle him, and whisper, Merry Christmas. :( |
| tdmiller82 10/12/00 |
...you feel an urgent neat to help a group of ducks cross the street then look nervously over your shoulder hoping that someone isn't taking your picture to be included in the local paper with the headline Duckman (or Duckwoman) to the rescue. |
| stephaniearwen 10/12/00 |
...the dispatcher
at work mentions a person named Kyle while filling out a
report and you immediately perk up. Then, you are
disappointed when the last name turns out not to be
Chandler. (Honest to God, this happened to me last night!
LOL! I'm hopeless!) ...after you get home from working evenings with campus security, you watch one of your EE tapes, even if it's two in the morning, because you didn't get your "Gary fix" that evening. ...you briefly consider suggesting to your professor that he name his new pet hissing cockroaches Gary and Marissa, but then think better of it. :) |
| ken_joe 10/12/00 |
...you realize that you do everything on this list! LOL :D |
| Melodey 10/12/00 |
I think that these are really great. Sorry but I haven't thought of any yet. I was wondering if anyone would mind if I put these on my website to sare with other people. If you don't want me to just say something, but if no one responds, I'll just assume no one minds. |
| stephaniearwen 10/12/00 |
...you know from
which episode every shot in every openning credit
sequence originated. ...other people start commenting on your increased use of phrases like "Gee," "Huh," "Howzat," "Holy Cow," etc. ...you wish Gary Hobson could run for president. ...you find yourself speaking with just a slight hint of a southern accent, and you're not from the south originally. |
| ken_joe 10/12/00 |
...you know the opening to EVERY show ...you go up to people and say "His name is Gary Hobson. He gets tommorows newspaper today..." |
| tdmiller82 10/12/00 |
...you go to the race track & look for horses with names like Biscuit, Applecart, and Sikorsky before placing your bets. |
| stephaniearwen 10/12/00 |
The real horse you should be placing your bets on is "Mr. Snow's Cat!" :) |
| Candii 10/12/00 |
....the rest of
the world is listening to the latest hits on their
walkman, you're listening to recorded EE music, that you
recorded yourself from your EE tapes, because they
haven't come out with an EE sound track yet. ....you are on your lunch break, and you are trying to think of more reasons of when you know you've been watching too much EE. :) ....you use the word....swell. (how embarrassing) |
| Candii 10/14/00 |
...you think of
naming your brand new puppy, Mcginty. ....you see a character on a TV program, and you think that Gary/Kyle would have been perfect in that particular role. |
| Macredd 10/14/00 |
..you have a list of every
episode with checkmarks next to the ones you've taped at
least twice and circled the ones you've missed. ..you start buying wool sweaters and flannel shirts for every man you know. ..you can recite "word for word" an entire episode. ..you have so many EE videotapes they you can no longer fit them in any convenient storage space. ..you have conversation with your spouse and have to interject "That happened to Gary/Marissa/Chuck once." and tell the entire story. |
| Candii 10/15/00 |
You know you've been watching too much EE when you consider buying a new puppy, just so that you could name it Mcginty. :) |
| Amy-Kokomo 10/15/00 |
When you decide to try to make gnocchi. The results? 3 thumbs up, 1 thumbs down and 1 who refused to even try "that yucky looking stuff." |
| ken_joe 10/15/00 |
...you want to name your kid Zeke ...you call Kyle "Gary" even if he's in a different show or movie |
| TerriRuth 10/15/00 |
All those mentioned are great! A few more: while at the Navy Birthday Ball, you wish your husband was still a young Lieutenant so he'd be wearing the chocker whites like Gary wore in "LT Hobson" instead of the short uniform tuxedo jacket worn by higher ranked officers. You're sitting in a meeting not paying attention when the meeting facilitator mentions Kyle in another department who helped out with the Chandler problem. Kyle? Chandler? Oh, not the same thing. Back to doodling on the memo pad. You notice your paper has "Final Edition" printed on it and wish it was the "Early Edition." |
| Candii 10/15/00 |
TerriRuth-A
little trouble concentrating that day huh? Lol! ....you find yourself wishing everyone a GaryChristmas! ....you bid your fellow EE friends a Garynight. |
| tdmiller82 10/16/00 |
...you want to
take the family to Hickory, IN for vacation so you can
visit the Hobson house. ...you go to a jewelry store & ask to see the Lermonatov or Harland diamonds. |
| Macredd 10/16/00 |
LOL These are great!!! I think we're all guilty of watching too much EE, if there is such a thing. |
| karens608 10/16/00 |
...you look
forward to going to work because that's the only place
you have access to a computer to read the EE message
board. I couldn't believe how many postings there were this morning! I took Friday off for my birthday (Yes, my birthday was Friday the 13th and a full moon!) so this morning was the first chance I had to look at it since Thursday and I had to go back several pages to find the first new one. Stephanie, you beat me to the one about the opening credits, but on a similar note, you know you've been watching too much EE when you recognize actors because you've seen them on EE. |
| ktc 10/18/00 |
..you have to
watch your tapes even after a great movie. ...When you have to watch an episode before feeling comfortable to sleep. ...If after a hard day you're almost completly allright after watching ee. ...When in some strange situations Garys facial expression comes to your mind |
| Dollene 10/20/00 |
when you watch the show while it is muted and try to speak the lines for the characters. (the sound was messed up tonight on cable, so what else was I to do?) |
| PJPJPJ 10/21/00 |
When EE is not on I come to this website (under favorites) and just read everything. It makes me feel better when I know I'm not alone in loving the show and the characters. It keeps me in touch. Thanks. |
| mindyfromindy 12/03/00 |
This is so cute, I just have to share it. My husband and I were sitting there looking over the sales ads from the newspaper. My nearly four year old daughter, who loves cats and has many stuffed cats, took one of the ads and went behind the couch. She announced that she was going to play "Early Edition". When I looked behind the couch, she had the paper on the floor with the stuffed cat sitting on top of it. ROTFL :D |
| stephaniearwen 12/03/00 |
ROTFL! That is SO CUTE! You've corrupted her already! :D |
| Dollene 12/04/00 |
There is an ad on the radio for a local car dealership and the announcer says "Opportunity is beating down the door" And you think of Gary in After Midnight. |
| Janet486 12/04/00 |
...when you can't think of anything but Gary's broken heart every time you hear Barry Manilow sing "The Old Songs", "Somewhere Down The Road" or "Put a Quarter in the Jukebox". Patsy Cline's "I Fall To Pieces" or any number of oldies. |
| karens608 12/04/00 |
Mindy- OH MY GOD! I read this at work and I don't think I have ever had to work harder to suppress a laugh! :D I'm glad no one saw me because even though I managed to keep from laughing out loud, I'm sure I had a strange expression on my face. It was worth it, though. |
| mindyfromindy 12/04/00 |
Stephanie and Karen, I am glad you liked it. It was so funny, I had to share it. :) |
| shana93 12/04/00 |
You go through "Gary withdrawals" on days when EE is not on. :) |
| Ren713 12/04/00 |
Shana, OH MY GOD! It's like "No EE for two days -- Ren, put the remote down and slowly back away from the TV and no one will get hurt." |
| shana93 12/04/00 |
I'm so glad I'm not the only one.
:) Weekends are so tough! :( How sad is this--I actually
look forward to Mondays just because I know it's the
start of 5 days in a row of EE. :) Also, YKYBWTMEE when certain objects remind you of Gary---a newspaper, a fire extinguisher, a lollipop, etc. |
| tdmiller82 12/05/00 |
Shana, please don't say lollipop. I can't even say this word anymore without bursting into fits of uncontrollable laughter. It took all the self-control that I could muster during Halloween not to laugh when I was handing out those "candies on a stick." |
| karens608 12/05/00 |
I have episodes on tape and I still went through EE withdrawal on Friday when both episodes were preempted. I'm pathetic too - I not only look forward to Mondays to watch EE, but also to participate in this message board because I don't have a computer at home. YKYBWTMEE when you look forward to going to work just so you can talk to other obsessed...uh...focused fans. |
| shana93 12/05/00 |
Tracy, LOL Sorry
about that. :) You may not want to read the rest of this
post till you get home. ;) YKYBWTMEE when you find yourself singing "Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli-lollipop.... " :) |
| shana93 12/05/00 |
Karen, LOL, I was
such a grump on Friday when I found out it wasn't on.
>:( I HAD to put in one of my tapes. Gotta get that
daily fix. :) A day without EE is like a day without food--can't survive without it. ;) |
| MsSpider 12/05/00 |
It's not what you're singing, it's what you are thinking when you sing "Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolli-lollipop . . . ." :D |
| shana93 12/06/00 |
MsSpider, You as SO right :) (Shana blushes now) ;) |
| moogie454 12/06/00 |
you've got the episodes on tape without those stupid commercials and you're still willing to watch them on T.V....and you get really really annoyed when the show is pre-empted. |
| alien51 12/06/00 |
Ya know what? I was laughing when I started reading the messages posted on this subject, but now I'm relizing that I base my life pretty much on 80% of this list. Do you know that all I want for Christmas is a black leather jacket and a whole bunch of black turtle necks. This is getting too sad. |
| Dollene 12/06/00 |
I want a season 5 of EE for Christmas. Plus a President. |
| Amy-Kokomo 12/07/00 |
Dollene wrote: "I want a season 5 of EE for Christmas. Plus a President." Dollene: At this point, it might be easier to get a season 5 of EE than a President. :) |
| stephaniearwen 12/07/00 |
YKYBWTMEEW you
suddenly have a craving for hot chocolate and are highly
disappointed that your dining hall does not have
marshmellows. This happened to me this afternoon. I am truly hopeless. :) |
| shana93 12/07/00 |
LOL :) That is so funny, because for the last couple months I've been drinking hot chocolate when I watch EE. (I have whip cream instead of marshmallows). Now it feels strange to watch the show without a cup of hot chocolate in my hands. I'll really start to worry about myself if I have to watch the show with a lollipop. ;) |
| shana93 12/09/00 |
I have to share this--today I went Christmas shopping with my husband. As we passed through the electronics section of Wal-mart, he suddenly turned to me and said, "You know you've been watching too much EE when you pass alarm clocks and immediately think of Gary." I was ROTFL, it's contagious. :) |
| Candii 12/09/00 |
I don't know if this fits in with this post, but I thought I would share it anyway. I was out shopping today, went to Target, and I passed a tin of chocolates with a picture of Elvis on it. (I'm a former Elvis fan :))It was a beautiful picture. I think it was one of him when he was just discharged from the army. Anyway, I actually found myself looking for one with a picture of Kyle on it. :rollereyes: As if! Anyway, it would have been nice. Hummm... I wonder if that can be done. Or a box of lollipops would suffice. |
| Ren713 12/09/00 |
Two incidents happened tonight that made me think I really need to join EE Anonymous: 1) A friend of mine mentioned lollipops being an erotic food and I just burst out laughing 2) I was listening to the song "I'm Only Sleeping" by the Beatles and as John Lennon is singing about wanting to catch up on sleep, I'm sitting there thinking "Hmmm...sounds like Gary." |
| Amy-Kokomo 12/10/00 |
When your mom buys cans of 9-Lives nearly everytime she goes shopping to send to Fox Family, but on more than one occasion has forgotten to buy food for your own cats. Abby (Amy's daughter :)) |
| reaness 12/10/00 |
I know that I am watching too much EE, when my husband Kenny, tell me that yesterday morning he dream that he was Gary Hobson and he hardly ever watches the show. |
| Dollene 12/10/00 |
when you are listening to a tape of your brother singing and in one song he sings "I'm just a regular Joe." Then in another "The alarm clock rings." And you think of EE. |
| shana93 12/11/00 |
When you are sending tapes of EE to a friend, and you mark the box "Fragile--Precious Cargo". :) Yes, I actually did this. I know, I'm pathetic. :) |
| stephaniearwen 12/11/00 |
...you're studying for your Developmental Psychology final and you relate key concepts to EE. For example, one of choices Gary has to make everyday sounds remarkably similar to the choice adults have to make in Erikson's generativity vs. stagnation stage- do I indulge my own needs and desires (stagnation) or do I give myself to the world at large to make it a better place and perhaps leave a positive legacy (generativity)? I'm gonna have a hard time explaining to Prof. Rubenstein why I'm grinning if a question on that stage comes up- I'm not sure he's going to understand my image of Gary running around Chicago saving the world. |
| Ren713 12/11/00 |
Stephanie - Have you covered the chapter on obsession yet? I laughed so hard when I read your post! |
| stephaniearwen 12/11/00 |
I believe obsessions are covered in Abnormal Psych. :D |
| shana93 12/16/00 |
Today I was eating out and this guy walked in the restaurant wearing jeans, sneakers, a turtleneck sweater, and a baseball cap. It was like he dressed out of Gary's closet. I only saw him from the back at first and I was dying to get a look at his face to see if he looked like Gary. I was sorely disappointed. The resemblance ended with the wardrobe. Later, I was channel surfing when this movie ad came on (something about murder at the Cannes film festival). Anyway, it has two actors from Mum's the Word. The guy who played Ali, and the woman who played the Egyptologist (I forget her name). Then I saw one of those tarot card reader ads and the reader's name was Lucius. It was so weird. Talk about an EE day, and I haven't even been watching it for the last few days thanks to Fox Family. I guess I just have it on the brain 24/7. :D |
| rach1121 12/16/00 |
do yall know who plays ali in mums the word? i was watchin robin hood men in tights 2day n the guy in the begining that acts like the dungeon is a restraunt i think is the same guy. |
| TobMar 12/16/00 |
When you start comparing your own newspaper delivery service with Gary's. He gets his Sun Times delivered right up to his inside door. I have to walk out in the snow and retrieve my Sun Times usually in the biggest snowbank close to the street. That's not fair! |
| ken_joe 12/16/00 |
-you decide that your old bus driver talks and sounds like Bernie Hobson |
| Dollene 12/17/00 |
I don't know what the actors name is that played Ali, but tonight I was watching amovie with Jenna Elfman, Ben Stiller and Edward Norton and they guy who played Ali was in it. |
| earlydues 12/17/00 |
//when this movie
ad came on (something about murder at the Cannes film
festival).// That would be "Murder at the Cannes Film Festival." :) An E! Original Movie. Looks kind of interesting. //Anyway,it has two actors from Mum's the Word...// Ali Vichar from MtW was portrayed by Brian George (you know, the same guy that does Seinfeld's "Babu" character). And Sammi Watts from MtW was portrayed by Karina Lombard. |
| shana93 12/17/00 |
Thanks for clearing that up Earlydues. I am notoriously bad with names of movies and actors unless I've seen them about a million times (or unless their drop dead gorgeous ;)) |
| rach1121 12/17/00 |
okie dokie thanx earlydues! :) |
| MsSpider 12/17/00 |
I was at the mall today in the diner. Two boys had Gary hair-cuts! They must have been about 6 and 9, not much older than that, dark haired. The way Gary has his hair in his the last season with the little up lift in front,that's the way these two boys looked. They would even qualify as cute as Gary. |
| shana93 12/17/00 |
I'm sitting here watching this movie on CBS that has the girl from Weathergirl in it (Rebecca Waters was her name in that ep, and I think her real name is Maria Pitillo. Aren't you proud of me Earlydues? ;)). Anyway, in her first scene, she asks if she can get her scarf back. All I could think of was Gary having her scarf in that ep. It was another weird EE coincidence. :) |
| earlydues 12/17/00 |
LOL! Very proud of you, Shana. Excellent research work. :) |
| karens608 12/18/00 |
That's who it was! I thought I recognized her from an EE episode, but I couldn't figure out which one. OK, I've definitely been watching EE too much. :) And while I'm at it, here's another YKYBWTMEEW. My mom mentioned that my brother(whose name is Gary)is dating someone, and all I could think was I hope her name isn't Marcia or Erica! LOL! |
| mindyfromindy 12/18/00 |
My daughter had a birtday party on Saturday, and someone got her a Ken doll. I looked at it and then told my sister-in-law (who understands my obsession), that I thought they should make Early Edition action figures. Wouldn't that be cool!? :) |
| shana93 12/18/00 |
Mindy, Have you seen some of the dolls out there? They're pretty scary! Personally, I'd hate to see what they'd do to Gary. YIKES! 8O I recently saw dolls of the cast of Dukes of Hazzard (don't ask me why these are still out), and I had nightmares for a week. 8O |
| karens608 12/18/00 |
Sorry about that! :) I know what you mean, though. I've had plenty of near spit-my-drink-out-at-my-computer episodes while reading this message board and I'm always at work when I read them. I can't tell you how many times I've had to struggle to suppress a laugh, either. One time, someone caught me making a kind of snorting noise that sounded like either a sneeze or laugh. Boy, was I embarrassed! :) |
| mindyfromindy 12/19/00 |
Shana, You may be right. Those dolls could be really scary. But, maybe they could make an Erica voodoo doll. Oops, I'm sorry. That was very mean of me. ;) |
| shana93 12/19/00 |
ROTFL An Erica voodoo doll would be so great. Too bad they didn't make those during the third season. :D I was out shopping today and I saw some of the mattel dolls and they're actually not that bad. If they made one of Gary, do you think there'd be a lollipop tattoo on it? |
| Ren713 12/19/00 |
A Gary doll. Hmmm. Would it be anatomically correct? Okay, I'm now drowning in a sewer in gutterville, send help! |
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